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In Brief

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I can admire Falling Water and find Mr. Wright a complete shit.

Easy Lessons

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A hinge in my heart is broken.

Still Dancing b/w Smokey Conversation

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an engine stalls out in the parking lot the driver tears her skirt coming through the door

Physics 101

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The cellar smelled like an aroused muskrat.

Imminent Weather, Five AM

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The spectacle of weather/ on the prairies approaches.

Dear Caddy

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I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.

Falling

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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...

Vesper

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. . . how a body calls in the dark. . .

Invoking Fire

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We talk of his time in the jungle.

Exhale

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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.

Cut-offs

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The sauce is you

What I Learned From Magazines This Week

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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.

Go ahead

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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.

Coming From Alabama

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In the state that the stars fell on, Love and I stumbled upon bits of God where he forgot sky and moon, too.

Bunking off

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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.

CARTOGRAPHY

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Your brother is not really blind.

Dark-Thirty

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The smell of garlic, soy, and onions/ exhausted from Skillman Wok/ perfumes December air.

When Birds Do Not Fly

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The last chick in the nest

How to Stop Doing and Be

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Monday will come soon enough to get/ what needs to be done, done.

Deus Ex Machina

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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields / Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/ Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/ Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/ scheduled breathing poses

Meaning of Life # 18

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To hell with the moon!

My Neighbor in the Apartment Across the Hall

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She's an obese woman whose clothes don't fit: shirts that ride up too high her belly hanging out her pants suctioned to her strangely pegged legs. Her ballooned cheeks are always chapped pink her lips little slivers peeled back over small beige teeth like…

100 Words

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She thinks this is the place she dreamed

Osama Retires

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Osama couldn’t see any reason he shouldn’t retire. No way he could top BP Oil in the Gulf or Pacific Gas & Electric in San Bruno.

Fifteen

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“We could dooble date,” he said.

Esmée

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Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.

driving

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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour and just getting under way

Ways of Making Love

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the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.

M. Nerveux Chronicles: Toad Suffers a Bad Business

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Herr Toad smokin'

If You See Something, Say Something

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You think there’s a chance the bag could be holding a severed head, or live or dead kittens.